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Analatos Painter
( fl Athens, c. 705–c. 680 BC). Greek vase painter. His name piece is the Early Proto-Attic hydria (Athens, N. Archaeol. Mus., 313) found at Analatos, a modern suburb of Athens. He was a pioneer of the Orientalizing movement in Attic vase painting (see GREECE, ANCIENT, §V, 4). His style evolved from the Late Geometric II (c. 735–c. 700 BC) workshop of the PAINTER OF ATHENS 894, especially from its Stathatou hand. On his earliest known vase, a hydria in Melbourne (N.G. Victoria, D23/1982), a funerary prothesis (laying out) scene on the neck has links with the Geometric past. Male and female dancers occupy the same position on the Analatos hydria, showing the painter’s style in the making. For the first time on an Athenian vase, Orientalizing curvilinear plant ornament fills the main body zone, flanked on one side by rampant lions. The dancers, although still in Geometric silhouette, have beaky facial features and reserved dotted eyes; massed dots cover the women’s skirts, and the painter’s own favourite trefoil plant ornament is often placed in the field.
Part of the Vase painters family
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